How we collaborate has profound implications for how we live and work. The author and New York University professor explains how social media has upended traditional norms. A McKinsey & Company article.

The Guardian Small publishers are benefiting from changes in the industry The Guardian Now, with the advent of digital publishing technology, the growing popularity of e-books, and the flexibility of print on demand that eliminates many of the cost...

Canadian Government Signs E-book Consent Agreements with Four Publishers Publishers Weekly After what the government said was an 18-month investigation, Canada's Competition Bureau has reached consent agreements with four multinational publishers...

Amazon: A Cheetah Hunting Gazelles (Publishers) Digital Book World AmazonKindle logo - 38enso Echoing a haunting analogy from his book about the world's biggest e-tailer, The Everything Store, Brad Stone reminded the publishers sitting in the...

Mike O'Connor's insight:

This provides a terrible vision of the future. Hopefully this won't happen, but it is clear that Amazon will only grow more and more important in the publishing field.

How Hybrid Publishers Innovate To Succeed Forbes The publishing industry has been challenged by the online sales success of Amazon, the rise of eBooks, print-on-demand and most recently by self-publishing.

Mike O'Connor's insight:

The line between self publishers and traditional publishers is becoming increasingly blurred. It will be interesting to see if these hydrid publishers could produce bestsellers on a regular basis or are they simply competing with Lulu.com.

BBC News Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book BBC News It is hard to avoid writers in Reykjavik. There is a phrase in Icelandic, "ad ganga med bok I maganum", everyone gives birth to a book.

For instance, if you look at a market like ebooks or literature in general, you will see that this market is broken up into many subsets. So while “books,” as a general market, might not appeal to as many as, say, smartphones, you can look at a subset like weight-loss or work-from-home literature and find markets that are incredibly vibrant.

No matter what your business or your niche, you can use a site like Facebook to tap directly into the market and to find that vibrant niche. You can compete on a larger level even with a smaller niche.

When squirrels attack! There's a medical code for that. Washington Post (blog) And after watching the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov last year, industry officials have expressed concern that the government hasn't done enough testing.

Publisher markets traditional print book by making it even more impractical, expensive. by Martin Rouse. 9781594633256H. A limited edition of Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea features a “first-of-its-kind 3D printed slip ...

Mike O'Connor's insight:

It is a really intersted way in designers' work still matters in a world where ebooks are becoming more important.

For now, HarperCollins is on board, but the four other big publishers have yet to be convinced (Hachette, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin Random House). It's a great service to read books from indie publishers ...

Mike O'Connor's insight:

This is a really interesting way to access books, however I think it will mean less money for publishers and authors.

Publishing's panic seems to subside in 2013 Los Angeles Times This is the story, for me, of 2013: that there is no story, or more accurately, that the panic that's defined publishing for the last several years has calmed.

Now that he is a rich and famous author, he has taken it upon himself to emit a long wail of complaint about the modern world. He is especially lathered up over techno-consumerism. He has even identified the new ...

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